Meaning & use
translation
A piece of writing or speech that has been converted from one language into another.
See it in a sentence
The publisher commissioned a new translation of the ancient Greek epic.
Something was lost in translation when the joke was rendered into Spanish.
A note on using this word
The idiom lost in translation describes meaning or humor that fails to survive being translated.
Words with a similar meaning
rendering
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